Books by "James R. Acker"
8 books found
New York in the Revolution as Colony and State
by New York (State). Comptroller's Office, James Arthur Roberts
1808 · Albany, N. Y. : Press of Brandow Printing Company
This book contains rosters of New York militia and other soldiers in each county, mainly during the American Revolution. Both enlisted men and officers are noted for reported regiments.
This book brings together a deep thoughtfulness about the insights of psychoanalysis and its application to work with troubled couples with an original and closely argued reading of some classic plays about marriage. It will be of use to readers interested in psychoanalysis and literature.
In Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream? A Study of Psychic Presences, James Grotstein integrates some of his most important work of recent years in addressing fundamental questions of human psychology and spirituality. He explores two quintessential and interrelated psychoanalytic problems: the nature of the unconscious mind and the meaning and inner structure of human subjectivity. To this end, he teases apart the complex, tangled threads that constitute self-experience, delineating psychic presences and mystifying dualities, subjects with varying perspectives and functions, and objects with different, often phantasmagoric properties. Whether he is expounding on the Unconscious as a range of dimensions understandable in terms of nonlinear concepts of chaos, complexity, and emergence theory; modifying the psychoanalytic concept of psychic determinism by joining it to the concept of autochthony; comparing Melanie Klein's notion of the archaic Oedipus complex with the ancient Greek myth of the labyrinth and the Minotaur; or examining the relationship between the stories of Oedipus and Christ, Grotstein emerges as an analyst whose clinical sensibility has been profoundly deepened by his scholarly use of mythology, classical thought, and contemporary philosophy. The result is both an important synthesis of major currents of contemporary psychoanalytic thought and a moving exploration of the nature of human suffering and spirituality.
Friend of a Friend
by James V. Irving
When an investigation threatens his lucrative financial planning business, ex-lacrosse All-American Frank “Halftrack” Racker hires lawyer Joth Proctor, a friend of a friend, to fix it. Taking the case, Joth steps back into the seedy world of petty crime, strip clubs, fraud, and death. Joth is presented with overlapping legal problems complicated by deceit and self-interested motives as friends and those posing as friends seek to manipulate both Joth and the system. Friend of a Friend, Book Two, in the Joth Procter Fixer series: Relying on a circle of trusted allies familiar to readers of book one, Friends Like These, including chief prosecutor Heather Burke, unlicensed private detective DP Tran and strip club owner Irish Dan Crowley, and introducing Jade, an exotic dancer trying to change her life, Joth fights to remain true to his personal code as the careers and lives of these same friends are threatened.
The Civil War as seen by a Southern soldier, a descendant of characters in "Drums."
The Unequalled Collection Of Engraved Portraits Of Napoleon Bonaparte
by James T. Mitchell